Friday, August 1, 2014

Digital Nails So Sparkle

So Sparkle was released by indie polish maker Digital Nails as one of a trio polishes making up the Doge collection, a reference to the hilarious shibe doge internet meme. Because I do indeed live under a rock, I had to go find out what this doge thing was all about. Several hours and abs aching from overstimulated hilarity later, I get it. Many fun! If you're curious, you may want to take a look here.

Here is what Raphaelle, owner and creative force behind Digital nails, has to say about the composition of So Sparkle: "So Sparkle is a hodgepodge of everything I love about indie polish. It
has Multichrome pigment, actual silver coated flakies, holographic
glitter, color shifting glitter, and other shinies that will make you
temporarily blind, should you stare at it too long. Be careful while
you're driving, y'all. This polish looks completely different in all
different lighting - it changes from charcoal, to purple, to steel blue,
even bordering on a silvery aqua sometimes! The teeeeny holo glitters
are the little sisters to our polish Supernova, so you KNOW how those
react to sun. Bring on the sunglasses!"

Such righteous! This puppy (hahaha) is an amalgamate bastion of nail polish forces for good in the world, all suspended in a color-shifting purple jelly base. Superabundant tiny glitters of various types and colors rub shardy shoulders with beautiful relatively large luxe silver-coated flakes, which lend this polish a lustrous gleam on the nail. The visual texture is amazing! Of the color shifts, the one I am most enamoured with is the shift from purple to silvery aqua, with the aqua aligning itself along the axis of light and the purple creeping in from the edges. In direct sun, the teensy holo glitters burst forth from the gleaming miasma with rainbow sparks of light. It is a delectable feast for the glitter lover in us all, a feast of radiant sparkly goodness in a bottle.

Application was fascinating. The consistency of So Sparkle is thick, a bit sticky and dense with components. Not trusting my skills, I took polish thinner to it, adding a squirt at a time and shaking until I could hear the mixing ball hit the sides of the bottle. Then I painted on a thin coat, just enough to give the polish a base track to layer itself on. I followed with one medium coat and a final thin coat just because I couldn't bear to stop. Pigmentation is not the point of this polish. The components provide the coverage, and they go on smoothly and evenly without any tumbling or stacking. I had a few protruding glitters over my free edge, but that may have been because I insisted on wrapping the tips with every coat. In any case, the glitters are so small it's not much of an issue. Cleanup is best done as you go along, because when these tiny components get a hold of the skin they are tenacious. As it was, So Sparkle went on so easily and cleanly I only had to stop a few times for clean up. This polish dries naturally in good time to a fairly smooth satiny finish with a tiny amount of texture from the components. I finished with topcoat, which was almost immediately absorbed but did leave an added shine to the surface of the polish.

Photos show three coats of So Sparkle over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

Digital Nails So Sparkle

This is so much fun I can hardly stand it! It's a glitter explosion into a fantastical tapestry perfectly encapsulated on each nail. My photos can't do justice to it, this is one you'll need to see in person to completely grasp its awesomeness because it has such a dynamic interplay with light. It is especially mind-blowing outdoors, where the multichromatic shifts pour over the surface of the nail like a silky liquid and the sparkle from the holo glitters revs into high gear.

2 comments:

I'm so glad you like it, Melissa! I think your observation that everything in it works together is totally on point. Raphelle's choice to use tiny glitter is a big part of what makes it so coherent. I love the gleam of the silver flakies!